Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Scanning Xsane, gscan2pdf, Simple Scan, Tesseract OCR

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:01:30AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> > I offer the following either for potential interest, and/or because in I 
> > will have some follow-on questions in my next posts:
> 
> While gscan2pdf remains attractive for file acquisition *where* it is known 
> that the pages may need to be manipulated, I have come across another GPL app 
> that appears better-suited to automatic document feeding and output-file 
> naming.
> 
> There is no reason the two cannot both be used side by side as the 
> circumstance warrants…

Absolutely. That's the power of open source.

> the other app is:
> 
>       eikazo
> 
>       http://eikazo.berlios.de/
>       http://eikazo.berlios.de/doc/output.html
>       http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/eikazo
>       http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Eikazo

It likely doesn't at all matter to the validity, utility,
trustworthiness of eikazo but I thought I'd mention it
anyway: the Berlios portal has been compromised for an
unknown time.

Karsten
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